Yes, but even my buying of anime is abstract, because it's done as a symbolic gesture ^_^
If anime cons can be successfully used to launch DVDs (the right venue and opportunity will not always come together), it serves as one counterargument to a charge you often hear against cons these days--that they may be profitable as get-togethers, but they do nothing to help the industry (in particular, there were reports that painted NYAF as marginalized even within the larger New York comic convention). Also, this was Eden of the East, which can't be easily dismissed as pandering to squealing and glomping fans.
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Date: 2011-01-18 11:28 pm (UTC)If anime cons can be successfully used to launch DVDs (the right venue and opportunity will not always come together), it serves as one counterargument to a charge you often hear against cons these days--that they may be profitable as get-togethers, but they do nothing to help the industry (in particular, there were reports that painted NYAF as marginalized even within the larger New York comic convention). Also, this was Eden of the East, which can't be easily dismissed as pandering to squealing and glomping fans.
--C.